Sentences with phrase «beyond subsistence»

The limitations of the catastrophic narrative still are such that they constrain discussion about progress beyond subsistence.

Slaves are forced to work, under threat of violence, for no pay beyond subsistence.

The best news is that the economic development that can quickly raise Third World standards of living far beyond subsistence is already happening.

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In a society based on kinship, especially under circumstances of severe inter-tribal rivalry for the means of subsistence, one finds high ideals of just conduct within the group combined with the absence of the sense of moral obligation beyond the group.

This, in turn, will increase the demand for labor and will give workers sufficient wages to develop their needs beyond mere subsistence, thus ensuring ever - rising consumer demand.

Also, wage growth has been stagnant over the last decade, and incomes as a whole aren't there to support much beyond first world subsistence living.

Asserting that anthropogenic climate change poses an existential threat to our nations, our cultures and to our way of life, and thereby undermines the internationally protected human rights of our people — including the right to sustainable development, right to life, the right to self - determination and the right of a people not to be deprived of its own means of subsistence, as well as principles of international law that oblige all states to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other states or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction;

When you are concerned with the flora and fauna of a region, rather than with its people, it's no wonder that you can write people off as the problem afflicting «paradise» once they develop beyond a way of life capable of producing more than subsistence.

She can't see beyond this form of existence, to consider the possibility of small farmers becoming big farmers, and of leaving subsistence existences — and possibly rural life — far behind them.

In the absence of a determination of exclusive rights of possession, occupation, use and enjoyment, the inclusion in the determination of a right to trade in resources was essential to extend their acknowledged fishing rights beyond their own subsistence needs.